George Lipsitz is a leading American Studies scholar and a professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His highly influential thinking about social movements, urban culture, inequality, the politics of popular culture, and whiteness studies has appeared in classic texts such as The Possessive Investment in Whiteness, Midnight at the Barrelhouse, Footsteps in the Dark, A Life in the Struggle, Time Passages, Dangerous Crossroads, AmericanStudies in a Moment of Danger, Rainbow at Midnight, Sidewalks of St. Louis, and Class & Culture in Cold War America.

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